Ticket to ride

Patna: Now that's a generous boss. In a gesture of gratitude for his services, Nitish Kumar has handed over a Rajya Sabha ticket to his principal secretary and long-term associate Ram Chandra Prasad Singh. RCP, as Singh is popularly known in Bihar's power corridors, is one of the

Patna: Now that's a generous boss. In a gesture of gratitude for his services, Nitish Kumar has handed over a Rajya Sabha ticket to his principal secretary and long-term associate Ram Chandra Prasad Singh. RCP, as Singh is popularly known in Bihar's power corridors, is one of the few serving bureaucrats to have picked politics as a career.

Nitish Kumar and RCP

He is the second serving principal secretary from Bihar to have joined politics after former finance minister Yashwant Sinha in 1984. RCP had been with Nitish when he was in the Union government. He joined him again as principal secretary when Nitish became chief minister.

Given the arithmetic of the Bihar Assembly, his elevation to the Upper House now seems a foregone conclusion even though he has eight years left to retire. He joined the ias the same year that Sinha left to join active politics. The million-dollar question is: will RCP be able to follow Sinha's fortunes in politics and go all the way?

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